Almond Flour [Edible] Raw Cookie Dough

Who doesn't like eating cookie dough?

Everyone -- DUH. Including people like moi who follow the Paleo diet, and who can't eat flour or sugar or anything like that. ;)

Ingredients -- ASSEMBLE.

Of course there's the problem of raw eggs and all that... But what if I told you, you could eat raw cookie dough without any risks?

*The internet collectively gasps.*

Mix together dry ingredients...

Yes, yes, now we can! Thanks to a little recipe I cooked up, us paleo peeps can now eat raw cookie dough to our hearts content! ;)

This recipe is for a single serving, so you can just whip up a batch any time you get a craving, and not have any tempting left-overs to make you over-do it. Which I know I would do, that's why it's a single serving... ;D

Add wet ingredients...

It's based on this recipe that I posted a while back, for SCD butter-pecan cookies. (Which are amazing as well, btw. :D)

Almond Flour [Edible] Raw Cookie Dough
SCD, Paleo, GAPS, Gluten-free, Etc.

Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
- tiniest bit of salt, about 10 granules
- little bit of vanilla extract
- 1/2 tbl salted butter OR coconut oil (add a bit more salt if using oil)
- 3/4 (or more) tbl honey

Directions:
1. Add almond flour, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl and stir together.
2. Add vanilla extract and honey.
3. Cube butter into tiny squares if cold, or use softened butter or coconut oil, and add to the mixture. Combine.
4. (If using softened butter/oil, you could skip this step.) Mix as well as you can, then stick the dough into the microwave for 10 seconds. Stir until butter/oil is completely combined.
5. Obtional: If dough isn't sweet enough for your liking, add more until it's perfect. I ended up using about 1 1/2 tbl. :)

Enjoy! :D

Christmas Nails and Butter Pecan Cookies

Hullo, my lovely friends and followers!

So, yesterday was the first day of winter, and now Christmas is only 3 days away! :D

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. I love giving and receiving gifts, getting together with family and friends, and, most importantly, celebrating Jesus' birth. ^_^

Yesterday, to get into the spirit of things, I decided to do some "Christmas baking" -- even though there wasn't technically anything Christmas-y about the recipe... ;) I also did my nails Christmas style... nothing fancy, but I think they're cute. ;)

I made butter pecan cookies (recipe at end of post) -- which I hadn't made in years! I made them with almond flour and honey, instead of wheat flour and sugar, because, as some of you may know, I'm on a special diet, the "specific carbohydrate diet" (SCD), that doesn't allow me to have wheat, sugar, most starches (think rice, potatoes, corn), and a few other random things, because I have celiac disease. It's not life-threatening, but it is chronic and has been a trial for me.

ANYWAY, back to le cookies... :D

And the finished cookies! (They tasted amazing, by the way. :D)

And in case anyone wanted it, here's the recipe!

SCD Butter-Pecan Cookies
Ingredients:

- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt

- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/3 cup honey

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine the almond flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and pecans in a bowl.
3. Combine the vanilla, egg, butter, and honey in another bowl.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix well.
5. Drop heaping 2-tablespoon-sized portions of the batter about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned.

Makes 18-20 cookies.